Paulo Coelho Quotes About Temptation

• If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Shining, Temptation

• I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation.

  Paulo Coelho

  Strong, Thinking, Mad

• About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fall, Evil, Temptation

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation”, p.14, Harper Collins

• Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Reality, Ideas

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